Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1927)

ell Raisers of ollywood By Cal York Yet Hollywood nights, warm, sweet scented, languorous, are those the world now visions. So it's small wonder the B. & E. Man's little boy wants to be a knight of those nights. In many cases it's really the nearest approach to ambition the boy has ever shown. For if all the installments his dad paid on the lad's so-called education had been spent in one place, the boy might be able to show a diploma entitling him to cut hair. As it is all he has for his four year college itinerary is a ukulele and the first four steps of the Black Bottom. But arriving in the picture paradise he chatters about fraternities and college and wears clothes as funny as a Harry Langdon feature. He immediately contracts to buy ow-priced but high-geared automobile and a hip flask as big as Death Valley Michael Cudahy, whom Joan Crawford dubbed "just an adorable fool," and Clara Bow, the girl who burns 'em up and then leaves *em cold, as Robert Savage can testify Robert Savage and Clara Bow were saved from matrimony by union hours at the License Bureau Marie Astaire — co starred with Mr. Cudahy in "Nearly Married" Scotty's canteen and starts in to paint the town red. He doesn't make it even a pale pink. His failure in the latter project, perhaps, may be ascribed to the fact that the coloring matter to be found in a bottle of Hollywood gin is almost as negligible as its alcoholic content. But his exploits do get the town muddied up in the yellow journals. How he meets a movie girl is not a formula to be detailed here. There are lots of girls in Hollywood and girls will be girls, particularly where a millionaire's son is concerned. But meet one he does — probably several of them — and what happens thereafter may be as funny as those multi-colored sweaters worn by members of the Holhwood Boulevard Golf Club. [ continued ox p.\ge 123| 29